Chapter 9
There was no point in getting dressed now, he had school in a few hours and he wouldn’t be able to get back to sleep anyway. Slowly Frank got out of bed and got a fresh set of clothes out from the closet and headed towards the bathroom. After shredding the now day old clothes he stepped in the shower and let the hot water run down his body.
Across the street the 5 walked out of the Way house hold and over to Franks. Gerard stayed at the back behind all his friends, he didn’t know why but he didn’t want Frank to see him, he had no sleep last night and had giant bags under his eyes. He didn’t know why he cared so much about what the new guy thought of him, but for some reason he did. He had this urge to impress him. He wished it would go away, but no, instead that feeling of nerves came over as Franks front door opened and the teenager walked out with a piece of toast in his hand, followed by a girl a bit smaller than Frank and obviously a bit younger, with a slight smile on his face and made his way over to the 5 who were leaning against his garden wall.
"Hey guys" Frank smiled "this is my sister Jo, hope you don’t mind but she is going to walk part of the way with us"
"No problem" smiled Bill.
And with that they headed to school, and said their goodbyes to Jo as she headed off in a different direction half way into their journey.
"So guys, were did you go last night? Asked Frank, he really was curious about were they had been, although it probably was none of his business anyway.
"Oh umm y’know to get some food" said Bill rubbing the back of his neck.
That was strange.
"But theres no food places open at that time of night" Frank said raising an eyebrow.
"We know this, um place" said Amy trying to think of something quickly in her head
Frank could sense something was going on and got suspicious but decided to drop the subject for now because they obviously didn’t want to talk about it.
"Hey Mikey, Gerard, I swear I saw someone on top of your roof last night" Frank really wanted to find something out, he was determined that by the end of the day he would.
"Oh um that’s probably just the neighbours cats, hes kinda large and likes to sit up there" Gerard said as they arrived at school, That was the first sentence Gerard had said all morning "hey guys um I'm late yeh see you later’ and with that Gerard darted off. Leaving the remaning 4 to look at each other and it was like the were communicating and having a conversation with looks and not words.
Frank just stood there very confused. He decided he would confront them again later and not rest until he found out what was going on. Sure maybe it was their private business and they might want to keep it a secret because they have been friends for years, but he had a strange feeling about this and thought he better he should know.
He didn’t want to be screwed around again like he had been in the past.
And with that he formed a plan in his head, he would get Amy, Hannah and Bill and Tom alone later because it seems they will probably tell him more than Mikey or Gerard because Gerard seems to be the centre of it and Mikey wont tell because hes Gerards brother. But Amy, Hannah, Bill and Tom seem to be in the know aswell.
And with that thought, he headed to class.
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